Cause & Effect Academic Vocabulary

a type of writing that tells a story

• informative writing

• opinion writing

• narrative writing

• description

the way authors organize information in a text

• text structure

• sentence

• inference

• cause and effect

 take hold of suddenly and with force

• treasure

• setback

• seize

• bail

an event that reverses some of the progress

• seize

• setback

• cause

• effect

scoop water out of a boat

• seize

• bail

• treasure

• excerpt

why something happens, the reason

• cause

• effect

• compare

• contrast

a short text that was taken from a larger passage or story

• excerpt

• bail

• setback

• treasure

the average weather in a location over a long period of time

• cause

• effect

• climate

• bail

what happens because of something else, the result

• simile

• metaphor

• cause

• effect

any possession that is highly valuable to its owner

• climate

• treasure

• excerpt

• seize